Hi Cecil,

In a futile attempt to maintain my rapidly diminishing sanity I try to
limit my role of playing Cecil's fool on RRAA to no more than two days a
week. I will be off-line for a few days.

But first, here is a clue for the answer to your never-ending question.

Those reward traveling waves do not merely cancel at some "match point".
They cancel everywhere. In other words they do not exist. There is no
energy that needs to be explained away.

The model was set up to include these wave components, but the solution
comes back to say that those components do not really have a non-zero
amplitude. No harm done; this sort of thing happens all the time in the
solution of science and engineering problems.

Oh, one more clue. I have nothing against waves. I make my living
dealing with wave phenomena. But as the old song goes, I know when to
hold 'em, and I know when to fold 'em.

Try hauling your ox back out of the ditch. There's a whole world out there.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

Cecil Moore wrote:

Here's a quote from Steve's article: "When the system reaches the
steady state, the two rearward-traveling waves at the match point
are 180 degrees out of phase with respect to each other and a complete
cancellation of both waves occurs."

I agree with that statement. But when I ask what happens to the energy
in those two cancelled waves, all I get is silence.